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<span class=large>ECCLESIASTES</span><br/> OR, THE PREACHER
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CHAPTER 9
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God’s providence ruleth over all—Time and chance happen to all men—Wisdom is better than strength—One sinner destroyeth much good.
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For</span> all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, <i>are</i> in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred <i>by</i> all <i>that is</i> before them.
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All <i>things come</i> alike to all: <i>there is</i> one <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 2: 14.">event</a> to the <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/9/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Alma 12: 8.">righteous</a>, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as <i>is</i> the good, so <i>is</i> the sinner; <i>and</i> he that <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/9/2c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE makes a covenant.">sweareth</a>, as <i>he</i> that <sup>d</sup><a href="eccl/9/2d" mark="d" type="D" title="IE avoids committing himself.">feareth</a> an oath.
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This <i>is</i> an evil among all <i>things</i> that are done under the sun, that <i>there is</i> one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness <i>is</i> in their heart while they live, and after that <i>they go</i> to the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 40: 11 (11-12).">dead</a>.
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&#182; For to him that is joined to all the living there is <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hope.">hope</a>: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
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Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any <i>thing</i> that is done under the sun.
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&#182; Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cheerfulness.">merry</a> heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
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Let thy garments be always <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 5: 21 (21, 24, 27).">white</a>; and let thy head lack no ointment.
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Live <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Joy.">joyfully</a> with the <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/9/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Husbands; TG Marriage, Wives.">wife</a> whom thou <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/9/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within.">lovest</a> all the days of the life of thy <sup>d</sup><a href="eccl/9/9d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that <i>is</i> thy <sup>e</sup><a href="eccl/9/9e" mark="e" type="A" title="Eccl. 2: 10.">portion</a> in <i>this</i> life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do <i>it</i> with thy <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Industry.">might</a>; for <i>there is</i> no work, nor device, nor <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/9/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 13 (13-14); D&C 130: 18.">knowledge</a>, nor wisdom, in the <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/9/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="Alma 34: 33.">grave</a>, whither thou goest.
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&#182; I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race <i>is</i> not to the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 2: 14 (14-15); Mosiah 4: 27.">swift</a>, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so <i>are</i> the sons of men <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 7: 23 (21-23).">snared</a> in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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&#182; This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it <i>seemed</i> great unto me:
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<i>There was</i> a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
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Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
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Then said I, <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 7: 19.">Wisdom</a> <i>is</i> better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/9/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mark 6: 2 (2-3).">wisdom</a> <i>is</i> despised, and his words are not heard.
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The words of wise <i>men are</i> heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/9/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 6: 7.">Wisdom</a> <i>is</i> better than weapons of war: but one <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/9/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 7: 11 (1, 11-12); Eccl. 10: 1.">sinner</a> destroyeth much good.
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